Yoshi Takata, a Japanese eye in the shadow of Pierre Cardin

Yoshi Takata is this fake Japanese tourist that Robert Doisneau had posed under the Eiffel Tower in 1965, naive under her

, camera slung over his shoulder, for his exhibition on the Eiffel Tower at the Arts Déco.

Very enlarged, it covers a wall of the Ropac gallery in the Marais and introduces this Japanese woman from Paris who lived in the shadow of Pierre Cardin (1922-2020).

While working for the pioneer of ready-to-wear, this photographer with a discreet passion took a gently amused look at its revolutionary big man, at his avant-garde fashion which put women in trapeze dresses with well-defined breasts.

Here it is revealed in a series of prints which, from Giacometti and Dali to Bob Wilson and Foujita, from the studio to the Parisian street, classify it between humanist photography and exoticism, in these years of the “French miracle” which dream of modernity.

At the Elysée press office

Born in 1916, Yoshi Takata began as an assistant interpreter at Agence France Presse in Tokyo, where she met…

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